Questions tagged [validation]
Tags for questions related to validating data.
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Where to validate mandatory parameters? In the Function body or already with a constructor? [duplicate]
I have a set of mandatory parameters: "Authorization" and "Domain".
So far I created a constructor which forces the class to be instantiated with both parameters:
public class1(string Authorization,...
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Still catch “duplicate entry” exception of database even after pre-validation of user input?
Say, you pre-validate if a username already exist in a registration form in the application layer. E.g., You send back a nice "username already exist" error message to the user.
While unlikely, there'...
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When should pointers be checked for NULL in C?
Summary:
Should a function in C always check to make sure it is not dereferencing a NULL pointer? If not when is it appropriate to skip these checks?
Details:
I've been reading some books about ...
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What http error to return in case of validation and business rules in a domain driven design api
I have a .net core api trying to implement it according to domain drive design principles.
In the domain layer there is a public Create method that contains all validation and business rules. If one ...
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Verify That Filters on a Dataset are Exclusive
Suppose I have a data table of, say, cars with a bunch of properties for each record. Example:
|Vin|Year|Make|Model|Color|Mileage|
I want to allow users to define (arbitrarily complex) filters which ...
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Independence axiom and ideal design explained
I am studying a book about software design called: Nonfunctional Requirements in Systems Analysis and Design which talks about the Axiomatic Design Methodology.
This methodology has two axioms. One ...
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Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
I have recently seen a few URIs containing the query parameter "utf8=✓". My first impression (after thinking "mmm, looks cool") was that this could be used to detect a broken character encoding.
So, ...
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What is the relationship between IV&V professionals, Testers and QA engineers?
In the context of SDLC, I know that Verification and Validation is about verifying the deliverable input from previous phase and validating the output of the current one.
And that testing is a phase ...
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How to Validate a Child Object Based on Parent Object's Data
Taking into consideration that I'm making an attempt at Domain-Driven Design and overall good separation of concerns when it comes to business logic, data access logic, etc...
Question: How do you ...
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ModelState Validation vs JQuery vs Remote
I was stuck with some validations for quite a while. I have been thoroughly searching the internet to find ways to apply the validations I require. I came across many methods for validations even ...
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Using the objects retrieved at the time of request validation
I hope the question title already answers the subject here. Lets say I have a number of ids that needs to be validated in a request.
Example:
request uri:
[POST] /album/{album_id}/song
Request ...
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Is it a bad practice to query remote resources inside validation?
Watching this talk about Symfony Forms and validation, at 23:06, I got stuck with a doubt
I couldn't find a satisfying answer to:
Is it a bad practice to execute a query (or a web request, or a side ...
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Domain Driven Design Validation Logic
I am trying to implement DDD along with Hexagonal Architecture. One of the things that I am struggling with is validations. I had explored a lot of articles on where the validation should be but it ...
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Best practice in synchronized form data validations (Web apps - Client-Server)
Here we go again with topic what was asked many times all over internet, but I not found any good enough answer:
What are best practices in making client and server side validations synced?
I was ...
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Is it practical to have perfect validation score on HTML?
I was in a heated discussion the other day, about whether or not it's practical to have a perfect validation score on any HTML document. By practical I mean:
Does not take a ridiculous amount of time ...
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Should I assert the preconditions of functions in a public API?
I am writing a library for some data structures in C that will be used in embedded systems. I have had issues designing and coming up with a solid error handling plan. This API is only subject to ...
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Prefixing a number with + on html inputs
When asking for positive number inputs on html, is it valid to allow + on the textbox? Like +42? Surely the + sign gets removed during server-side processing. But will allowing + be fine on the html ...
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REST API Input Validation Strategy
I am implementing a REST API and need to validate the JSON API inputs for the CREATE and UPDATE endpoints.
The goal is to send a 400 error prior to doing any processing if the inputs are not valid.
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Why validate XML?
I am looking for an explanation on just why XML needs to be validated. I have been testing DTD's and Schema's for the past month and recently tried to find out why I am doing this. I know it makes the ...
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Message validation in async messaging-based services
I'm looking for information on the best approach to message validation in asynchronous-messaging-based services (i.e. services that pull messages from some sort of message queue or broker, rather than ...
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To And From Date Validation in Model
In my Springboot project I need to perform a validation of the type validFromDate<validToDate.
I was wondering whether would it be a good or bad practice to place a validation in the model itself (...
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How to implement Repository that supports ORM's validation?
Domain Driven Design(DDD) has an abstract repository pattern to handle saving and fetching/finding entities in storage (db, external service, doesn't matter). My question is if Repository Pattern has ...
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If we write validation in sever side, don't it become two times of writing same code? What is the standard software engineering solution for it? [duplicate]
I am not asking whether to do server-side validation or not.
My question is whether any solution or better practice exist in the software world to address this repetition of code.
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How do you expose the field that caused the error?
Context: field errors
Given an input in the form:
{
"list": [
{ "username": null },
{ "username": "test" },
{ "username": "" }
]
}
Some APIs expose errors in the ...
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Call external API during validation (Rails)
I need to validate a value with data from an external API.
The easiest way would be to add a validation rule in my model, call the external API and do my check.
But it feels very dirty to call an API ...
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Should validation be inside or outside function?
Which one is better?
A
if ( complexDataCheck(...) ) {
doJob(...)
}
vs
B
doJob()
func doJob(...) {
if not(complextDataCheck(...)) return error;
...
}
In A, the function does one and ...
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Javax Validation Annotations in Spring - is it always appropriate? [closed]
I've recently become more fond of javax validation annotations and creating custom ones when I feel they may be appropriate. But... I can't figure if it's design-appropriate to use them for everything....
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How to report multiple errors as a result of validation?
I have a class that transforms a complex model, for example an abstract syntax tree or intermediate model. The model can be either valid, invalid or partially invalid, i.e. it contains errors but some ...
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How to manage user serial keys for an application
I have an application in C# where several users access it.
Each user will have a serial key associated with his username in a table users in a local MySQL database.
Example of the table users:
User ...
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Is it a bad practice or uncommon to save “Invalid operation attempted” events in an Event Store when doing Event Sourcing?
I have a simple toy project that deals with Banking operations (cash deposit, withdrawals, wire transfers, open and close accounts).
I am wondering whether there is something wrong about saving ...
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Managing client-side and server-side validations in one place
I'm 100% on board with the case that one should definitely use both client-side and server-side data validations.
However, in the frameworks and environments I've worked in, the approaches I've seen ...
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Can a service provider proof it is running a particular open source product? [closed]
Part of our project includes an open source GO server that we have open sourced for transparency. How can we prove that we havent made any alterations to the code before we deployed it?
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Form validation or model based verification on client side
I'm actually wondering what are the pros and cons of these two ways to handle client side validations / verifications.
Let's imagine an application where there is a contact form that needs these ...
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What is the purpose of adding a schema validation in responses?
Many of the server scripting packages/tools out there have the option to have a schema validation before the response is sent out to the clients.
E.g. the fastify package for a Node.js has a pretty ...
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Designing Validations Database driven configuration Vs hardcoding validations
So I am debating what approach to follow.
My scenario is :
Will receive a POJO which I need to validate ( REST end point )
Now I can explicitly validate specific fields ( which I know / are stated ...
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Check if object exists before updating/deleting
In an application that doesn't use an ORM, is it good practice to check whether an object exists before attempting to update/delete it?
For example:
@Route(method="DELETE", path="/posts/\d+")
...
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Should a method decide whether to execute or not? [closed]
I couldn't find a question on SE but it has probably been asked elsewhere already (in case, please mark it).
A method containing code to run just with specific external conditions can:
decide ...
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How far should I take email address validation when the cost of bad emails is high?
When it's more important to prevent typos than to cover 100% of all possible email addresses, what syntactic email validations do you do?
Imagine this:
You're with the local gas & electric ...
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Why is it bad to use exceptions for handling this type of validation? It seems like it makes the code so much cleaner
I'm working on a .NET Core REST API and I'm writing a service class to create new user accounts. I have the following code:
public async Task<UserDto> RegisterNewUserAccount(...
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DDD - How to do informative validation (specifically on entity creation)?
For my domain entities currently, all validation errors cause exceptions to be thrown. I don't like this as it doesn't allow me to compile all validation errors before exiting a method. I'd like to ...
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Where should tests and checks be implemented in a mathematical modelling process?
I have a mathematical model with two main "stages" 1. data loading (only a few KB of data) and 2. running a model on the data. I want to implement some tests and checks to ensure the data being fed ...
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How far should one take e-mail address validation?
I'm wondering how far people should take the validation of e-mail address. My field is primarily web-development, but this applies anywhere.
I've seen a few approaches:
simply checking if there is ...
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JavaScript only validation on AJAX form submit
I've been mulling this question over for a few days in my head and I can't come to a solid answer.
We understand that client side validation for forms is not enough, because you can easily turn ...
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In a Domain Driven Development DDD, have a validation on a DTO that calls a external service is wrong, if yes, where should it be?
I have this question, is more about pattern and in theory what is wrong or not instead of if is possible or not (because it is).
In a DDD design, I have a DTO that I am validating, to check not nulls,...
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Should we delegate user input sanitization/validation?
Consider this code:
new FrameworkClass( [ 'query' => $_POST[ 'input' ] ] );
FrameworkClass is supposed to do input sanitization and validation. Should we just trust 3rd party code to do it's job?
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What to do when an aggregate is given a bad event?
What is usually done when an aggregate is asked to apply an "impossible" event to its state?
For example, if a ShoppingCart aggregate has already applied a CustomerAckRec (The customer has ...
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Loading Aggregate Root from Database with Validations
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Where to validate domain model rules that depend on database content?
I am asking this new question because I have more descriptions and I don't want to change the ...
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Formatting a string by converting to a number then back to a string
I'm not sure whether this qualifies as code smell, or if there may be some better way of performing the same task, but, basically, I want to format a 10 digit string, using C#, and have the following ...
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If functions have to do null checks before doing the intended behaviour is this bad design?
So I don't know if this is good or bad code design so I thought I better ask.
I frequently create methods that do data processing involving classes and I often do a lot of checks in the methods to ...
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Should I fix known bad domains in user emails?
Checking my Sendgrid account I've noticed many drops due to "Known bad domain". Those bad domains often seem to have been caused due to user mistake.
***@gmal.com
***@gmail.com.br
***@hotmal.com
I ...
